apt-get repository

[Ryan Nix]

Put me down for $50!

Matthias, my largest customer is an adverstising agency who use Macs 
extensively.  Would a 2 year old off-lease G4 laptop suffice?

Henry A. Leinhos wrote:

> Matthias,
> Do you have a PayPal account?  I'm sure some of us here in the PPC 
> community wouldn't mind contributing for a new (or slightly used) G4.  
> Any one else interested?
> Henry
> Matthias Saou writes:
>
>> Ryan Nix wrote :
>>
>>> No kidding.  Matthias is great!
>>> Matthias, have you every thought about "selling" requests to make 
>>> obscure packages availible?  Say like $10 to make something like the 
>>> latest cvs of MaconLinux availible upon request?
>>
>>
>> Nope, let me keep my hobbies as hobbies, please! :-D
>> One thing I wouldn't be against, though, is if some wealthy Mac believer
>> wanted to donate a new PowerMac (or even better, PowerBook/iBook) to 
>> me in
>> order to build packages faster and actually test them ;-) Currently, 
>> I only
>> have an "OldWorld" Beige G3 tower I bought from a friend, with no 
>> display
>> connected... and no altivec, no 3D acceleration... and it takes a
>> loooooooooong time to compile stuff, and it requires MacOS/BootX to 
>> be able
>> to boot :-(
>> Sometimes, I can get my hands on a 400MHz G4 at work, on which 
>> firefox took
>> "only" 4h (*) to recompile... that's actually much faster than my 
>> 266MHz G3
>> :-) But hey, a few hours compiling on a single machine saves so much 
>> more
>> time to plenty of people, it's definitely worth it.
>> Back on topic : I do appreciate quick personal mails about bugs or 
>> outdated
>> packages in my repository, like for audacity recently. Believe it or 
>> not, I
>> usually fix problems and update packages pretty fast ;-)
>> Matthias
>> (*) : It took 30 minutes for the same package on a 2800+ Athlon64 and 50
>> minutes on a 1.7GHz Intel centrino laptop. Fun with real world numbers!
>> -- 
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>> Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3
>> Load : 0.29 0.26 0.48
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